Hungarian Revolution

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establishment

...linking Buda with Pest, was a metaphor for unity. The town of Pest was still partly German, but the nobility of Pest
megye led the campaign for Hungarian home rule. After the outbreak of revolution in Pest in March 1848, a Hungarian ministry, transferred from Pozsony (modern Bratislava, Slovakia) and responsible to the Diet, was established there. In the ensuing civil war Buda was...

history of Hungary

...1848. Inspired by the Revolution of 1848 in Paris, a popular upheaval caused the breakdown of central authority in Vienna. On March 15—a date celebrated in Hungary ever since—a bloodless revolution led by young intellectuals, including the poet Sándor Petőfi, abolished censorship in Pest (later part of Budapest) and formulated a series of demands. Seizing the moment,...

role of

Bem

Polish army general whose military feats in Transylvania and the region of Banat made him a hero of the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848–49. He was the author of treatises on artillery, mathematics, and history.

Kossuth

In 1847 the county of Pest elected Kossuth to represent it in the next Diet, in which he assumed leadership of the “national opposition,” which had agreed on an extensive program of political and social reform. The reformers made a little progress in subsidiary fields, but deadlock had been reached on the central issue of political control when the news of the revolution in Paris...

Nesselrode

After the outbreak of the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Nesselrode, who had restrained Nicholas from intervening in the French revolutions of 1830 and 1848, suggested that Russia aid Austria in suppressing it; this act not only crushed the Hungarian rebels but also contributed to the general misconception that Russia was the most powerful nation in Europe. Encouraged by this success, Russia’s...

Paskevich

When the
Hungarian Revolution broke out in March 1848 and the Austrian government requested military assistance from Russia, Paskevich commanded the Russian troops that invaded Hungary in June 1849. Although his forces suffered badly from disease and his leadership was less effective than it had been during the Polish uprising, the rebels were finally suppressed; hoping to receive better...

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